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Visuality and materiality in the story of Tristan and Isolde / edited by Jutta Eming, Ann Marie Rasmussen, and Kathryn Starkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tristan (Legendary character)--Romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Tristan.
- Tristan (Legendary character).
- Romances.
- Adaptations.
- Iseult (Legendary character)--Romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Iseult.
- Iseult (Legendary character).
- Tristan (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Iseult (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Tristan (Legendary character)--Art.
- Iseult (Legendary character)--Art.
- Love in literature.
- Love in art.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Tristan and Isolde
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Richly illustrated with eighty-three halftones and color images, this volume is an important examination of the story of Tristan an Isolde in the European context of its visual and textual transmission. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I. Courtly bodies, seeing, and emotions. The light of courtly society : Blanscheflur and Riwalin / Jan-Dirk Müller
- How to find love in literature : reading Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and his cave of lovers / Haiko Wandhoff
- Why do Tristan and Isolde make love? The love potion as a milestone in the history of sexuality / James A. Schultz
- Seeing love in the world of lovers : late medieval love literature as a fulfillment of Gottfried's Tristan / Ludger Lieb
- Part II. Media, representation, and performance. From myth to emblem to panorama / Michael Curschman
- Framing Tristan; taming Tristan? The materiality of text and body in Hans Sachs's Tragedia / Elke Koch
- Time, space, and mind : Tristan in three dimensions in fourteenth-century France / Amanda Luyster
- Tristan love : elite self-fashioning in Italian frescoes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Klaus Krüge
- Part III. The visual culture of Tristan. Discourses of curiosity : the materiality of meaning in edition studies and cultural studies / Martin Baisc
- Textual worlds; Pictorial worlds : interpreting the Tristan story in illuminated manuscripts / Elke Brüggen and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler
- Specific and generic scenes in verse Tristan illustrations / Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden
- The artistic context of some northern French illustrated Tristan manuscripts / Margaret Alison Stones
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0268041393
- 9780268041397
- OCLC:
- 769430629
- Publisher Number:
- 99949948516
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